Avalanche Offseason

Created by: Trevor31lv

Team: 2020-21 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 21, 2020

Published: Aug. 21, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Here's my take on the Avalanche for this upcoming offseason. This is the route I'd choose to go and I think it's is fairly realistic. I think Colorado already has such a stacked roster, so signing Taylor Hall isn't something they need to do and it could cause long term cap issues when it comes to resigning players like Landeskog and Makar in a few years. For this reason, I opted to pass on him and instead focus on resigning the team's own FAs.

Basically all players of importance for this upcoming season were brought back with the exception of Namestnikov and Zadorov. Zadorov is looking like the odd man out in the D room to create space for Byram and may want a bit more that the Avs are willing to pay. Namestnikov could also return considering the 5.5 mil in cap space I have left remaining, but is a bit up in the air. I don't think resigning him or letting him walk for the flexibility would be a wrong decision, just whatever they'd decide to do.

I'm fairly new to this, so I tried to make contracts to the retained RFAs realistic, but it's possible I'm off by a bit. If so, no big deal with the extra cap space.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Burakovsky, André	2	$5,500,000
Kamenev, Vladislav	2	$875,000
Graves, Ryan	4	$3,250,000
Jost, Tyson	2	$1,650,000
Nichushkin, Valeri	1	$1,750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Nieto, Matt		3	$2,000,000

Trades

COL

2021 2nd round pick (WPG)
2021 5th round pick (WPG)

Additional Details:

Winnipeg is gonna need help on the blue line. A contract for Zadorov would likely be in the range to cost a 2nd in RFA compensation. Adding a 5th in the following draft here allowed Winnipeg to get his rights to guarantee their ability to sign him.

WPG

Zadorov, Nikita [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Colorado gets an extra 5th in addition to the 2nd they'd already get from RFA compensation for a guy they're likely gonna let walk.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$75,179,762	$0	$5,000,000	$6,320,238

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $5,571,429$5,571,429 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 1	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 5
Burakovsky, André $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Donskoi, Joonas $3,900,000$3,900,000 RW UFA - 3
Nichushkin, Valeri $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Compher, J.T. $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Jost, Tyson $1,650,000$1,650,000 C UFA - 1
Calvert, Matt $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW UFA - 1
	Kamenev, Vladislav $875,000$875,000 C RFA	Nieto, Matt $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD UFA - 3	Makar, Cale $880,833$880,833 ($2,500,000$2M) RD UFA - 1	Grubauer, Philipp $3,333,333$3,333,333 G UFA - 1
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	Cole, Ian $3,450,000$3,450,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Francouz, Pavel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 2
Byram, Bowen $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) LD/RD RFA - 3	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
	Timmins, Conor $925,000$925,000 RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 21, 2020 at 6:07 p.m.

wpgboy

Joined: Aug. 2020

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don't see wpg doing that

Aug. 21, 2020 at 6:11 p.m.

Trevor31lv

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Quoting: wpgboy

don't see wpg doing that

Yeah, maybe not the Jets specifically. They're just the team I ended up picking. General idea was just to move Zadorov for a 2nd (which would be the likely RFA compensation) plus a later pick. Probably should've included that it being Winnipeg to do it wasn't super important.

Aug. 21, 2020 at 6:18 p.m.

tsyls

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Idk what that other guy is saying, but I’d trade for zadorov. He’s a LHD right? If so can he play 2LD? He’d be the exact kind of dman we need.

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Aug. 21, 2020 at 6:21 p.m.

UpsideDownQue

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seems pretty good. Id make a few small changes though:

-If were only giving Burakovsky 2 years then I think the AAV would be lower, but on a long term deal Id be ok with 5-5.5M

-Id be ok with that return for Zadorov, but ideally he would be traded out of the central division - I wouldnt want to face him too often with how physical he is, especially in the playoffs

-Id rather bring back Namestnikov than Nieto, especially since theres still some cap space left (its pretty likely that we wont have to spend all 5M on performance bonuses)

-Kamenev is likely going to the KHL, but if he doesnt then id be fine with him as a 13-14th forward again for that price

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Aug. 21, 2020 at 6:28 p.m.

bunzy1034

Cold spaghetti